1. (almost) Seamless Linux on Windows with Virtual Machine Drupal Camp LA 2011

2. Why? Slow site performance on Windows Drush is not fully supported Needs to replicate hosting environment Fail safe 

3. I Still Want to Use Windows! *nix emulator (Cygwin, MKS Toolkit, etc) AMP stack on Windows (XAMPP / WAMP / Acquia Dev. Desktop)

4. OK, Other Options? Linux in virtual machine Switch to Linux or Mac entirely Great reference on Drupal.org Drupal Quickstart: Pre-made Development Environment (http://drupal.org/project/quickstart)

5. Extra Benefit Play and learn Linux Familiarity with web hosting stuffs A great intro to VPS and Grid Computing (clustering, load-balancing, failover, etc.)

6. [Show VM Unity and Full screen]

7. Virtual Machine Install virtualization software (VirtualBox, Virtual PC, VMware Player/Workstation/ESXi, etc.) Configure virtual machine hardware Set up the virtual networking(s) Install Linux distro (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) Install Apache, MySQL, PHPbstack Install Drush

8. Seamless and a Brave New World Vmware Player/Workstation: Unity view VirtualBox: Seamless Mode Full screen mode (+ start to use Linux more often )

9. [Demo webpage loading time from XAMPP and VM]

10. Q&A